The exhibition invites Greek and Cypriot artists, in an effort to explore the correlations between the rhetoric of resilience, ecology, urban planning, sustainability and social organization. The participating artists are invited to explore the ways in which artistic gesture can contribute to the understanding of resilience within a compassionate and consoling discourse that can – […]
The multiple artistic viewpoints of the theme by eight contemporary Greek artists were presented from 2 July to 2 August 2010, in Delphi, with new works inspired by the Battle of Marathon: Alexandra Athanassiades War Horse, sculpture of brass and wood, Nikos Alexiou Ideal Armours, a work from reed and strings, Evgenia Apostolou Bloody Fields, oil on […]
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Platforms Project, is a group artist exhibition that includes a rich and multifaceted program of lectures, videos and performances by the participating teams. The aim is to present the independent artistic scene, as it is expressed by artist run initiatives. The project was directed by Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou. This Project is presented for […]
The Exhibition entitled ” The Value of the Dialogue: Transmutations of the plastic language explored the nature and substance of the work of art. More precisely, the work of art is considered a means of communication since it constitutes the external stimulus / the primary source / and object which provokes and sets in motion […]
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The Topoi exhibition was the Museum’s third grand venture in Athens. By proposing the rather abstract title of Topoi, which translates to “places”, art historian and the Museum’s artistic director, Denis Zaharopoulos, referred to “conceptual places which every one of us can be part of, or imagine what artistic creation and works of art mean, what meaning and […]
Breathing Circle a site specific installation by Danae Stratou. Seven large stainless steel letters compose the imperative of the verb “BREATHE”. Forming a perfect circle on the ground, their mirrored surfaces reflect the surrounding natural environment. The letters have a length of one metre and are placed equidistantly upon the perimeter of an imaginary circle 7 metres […]
Soul Forest is a photographic installation comprising seven freestanding photographic “sculptures” depicting a forest from the highlands of Indian Kashmir. The photographs were taken by Danae Stratou in 2005, when she was travelling along the Line Of Control between Indian and Pakistani Cashmir, in order to reach and photographically document moments from everyday life along the Line […]
Airport Entrance Project “To travel hopefully…” air travellers are welcomed into and out of Austin through a dynamic elliptical structure carved out of, and into, Texas’ primordial elements: its Sky and its Earth. I sought to utilise the same textures, principles and materials that I have always used in my work and to combine them with local, Austin-based, expertise in the […]
Javelin II is custom made out of a 4cm thick aluminum rod, 600cm in length and connected to a 150cm stainless steel rod at its mid point. It balances at an angle. […]